Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre. Main clinical interest is Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine. Fellowship trained knee and a sport medicine surgeon with extensive experience in knee ligament reconstruction, patellofemoral joint instability, primary/revision knee arthroplasty and complex knee reconstruction. After finishing type I SpR training in Scotland and knee fellowships in Sydney/Newcastle, I worked in the NHS as a consultant for 10 years in QEH/Gateshead. In January 2015 I relinquished my post in the North East. From February 2015I started working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at their war wounded trauma reconstruction centre in Tripoli/Lebanon.I am a Clinical Research Director of OASIR Research group (www.oasir.co.uk).In the past few years I have developed an extensive research interest in patella instability and tendinopathy. I have published more than 80 scientific papers, book chapters and articles (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations). I am also the co-author of two of the best selling Postgraduate Orthopaedic books in the UK.I am also the chairman and founder of Newcastle/Gateshead Medical Volunteers Charity and the managing director of North East Orthopaedic and Sport Injury Surgery Ltd (NE-OASIS)/Newcastle and Chock medical in Erbil. Our charity organises regular trips to Kurdistan region of Iraq to provide free Orthopaedic surgery to the local population. In the past 5 years we have performed more than 300 orthopaedic operations and seen 2000 patients at the clinic. We also provide formal and informal medical and nursing education and have sent three shipments of blankets to the refugee camps in Xanki/ Duhok province. Our last trip was in May 2015 we saw 180 patients and operated on 25 complex cases.